David Ray Griffin - Ovid - Exodus 20:17 – Horace - Epictetus - Mark Twain - Winston Churchill - Otto Rank - Daniel Defoe -
Thou shalt not covert thy neighbour’s oil. Professor David Ray Griffin
We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us. Ovid
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s. Exodus 20:17
The covetous man is ever in want. Horace
Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too easily covet anything. Epictetus
He had discovered a great law of human action without knowing it – namely, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. Mark Twain
We do not covert anything from any nation except their respect. Winston Churchill
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife for there are plenty of others. Otto Rank
Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has not given them. All of our discontents for what we want appear to me to spring from want of thankfulness for what we have. Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe